Raúl Baillères Chávez (
Silao,
Guanajuato
Guanajuato (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato), is one of the 32 states that make up the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 46 municipalities and its capital city i ...
,
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
, 1895 – 1967) created a business empire in
Mexico
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. He founded the
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
The Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology), commonly known as ITAM, is a private university. It is one of Mexico's most important institutions of higher learning; highly prestigious in the social sc ...
(ITAM) on 29 March 1946.
His son,
Alberto Baillères
Alberto Baillères González (22 August 1931 – 2 February 2022) was a Mexican billionaire businessman. , he had an estimated net worth of US$10.1 billion according to ''Forbes''. He was the chairman of Grupo BAL, and of ITAM.
Early life
Bail ...
, was at the time of his death the second richest man in Mexico, and ninth in
Latin America
Latin America or
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* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
, according to ''
Forbes
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'' magazine.
External links
Profileat the ITAM website
1895 births
1967 deaths
People from Guanajuato
20th-century Mexican businesspeople
University and college founders
Mexican people of French descent
Raul
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